Scattered rain and slightly cooler temperatures limited the spread of multiple wildfires burning across Colorado’s Western Slope on Friday, allowing firefighters to increase containment and lifting some evacuation orders Saturday morning.

Containment on the 133,954-acre Lee fire burning between Meeker and Rifle in Rio Blanco County grew to 31% as crews marked a “very successful” day of keeping the flames in check, operations section chief Jeramy Dietz said in a morning briefing.

County officials lifted some mandatory evacuations along the Colorado 13 corridor Saturday morning, though some areas west of the highway and near the Garfield County line remain under mandatory evacuations.

Farther north, folks living on the edge of Routt and Rio Blanco counties also remain under evacuation fo

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